This article lists the winners and nominees for the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding News/Information – Series or Special. Originally entitled Outstanding News, Talk or Information, the award was later split to honor series' and specials separately. The categories were merged back together following the 2003 ceremony, before a separate category for talk series' was created in 2008 and the category was renamed to its current title.

Winners and nominees Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

1980s Year Series / Special Ref 1989 Oprah Winfrey: On Location in Forsythe County

1990s Year Series / Special Ref 1990 – 91 colspan="2" 1992 The Oprah Winfrey Show 1993 The Oprah Winfrey Show 1994 The Oprah Winfrey Show 1995 The Oprah Winfrey Show 1996 See Outstanding News, Talk or Information – Series and Outstanding News, Talk or Information – Special 1997 BET News Special: Ron Brown – A Celebration of Life 60 Minutes America's Black Forum Biography Dateline NBC 1998 – 99 See Outstanding News, Talk or Information – Series and Outstanding News, Talk or Information – Special

2000s Year Series / Special Ref 2000 – 02 See Outstanding News, Talk or Information – Series and Outstanding News, Talk or Information – Special 2003 BET Tonight with Ed Gordon 60 Minutes II ABC News Nightline Biography The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow 2004 Judge Mathis 106 & Park Top 10 Live American Experience Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives 2005 Tavis Smiley American Experience Beah: A Black Woman Speaks Brown vs. Board of Education Anniversary Judge Mathis 2006 Tavis Smiley CNN Judge Mathis The Tyra Banks Show Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson 2007 Tavis Smiley Biography Crisis in Darfur Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel The Tyra Banks Show 2008 In Conversation: The Senator Barack Obama Interview American Gangster American Morning Dr. Sonja Gupta: Saving Your Life Good Morning America 2009 In Conversation: Michelle Obama Interview American Gangster Anderson Cooper 360° The Oprah Winfrey Show Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel

2010s Year Series / Special Ref 2010 President Obama: The Inauguration Anderson Cooper 360° CNN Presents Judge Mathis Leading Women 2011 Unsung A Conversation with President Obama Anderson Cooper 360° Judge Mathis Washington Watch with Roland Martin 2012 Unsung BET News Exclusive: The President Answers Black America Judge Mathis Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel Washington Watch with Roland Martin 2013 Unsung Ask Obama Live: An MTV Interview with The President Judge Mathis Save My Son with Dr. Steve Perry Washington Watch with Roland Martin 2014 The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Justice for Trayvon Mandela: Freedom's Father Oprah: Where Are They Now? Unsung 2015 Unsung America After Ferguson Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Melissa Harris-Perry Oprah's Lifeclass 2016 Unsung Katrina: 10 Years After the Storm News One Now Oprah Prime: Celebrating Dr. King and the Selma Marches 50 Years Later Oprah: Where Are They Now? 2017 BET Love and Happiness White House Special AM Joy with Joy Reid StarTalk with Neil deGrasse Tyson Stay Woke Unsung for Sugarhill Gang 2018 Unsung News One Now Oprah's Master Class The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman Through the Fire: The Legacy of Barack Obama 2019 Oprah Winfrey Presents: Becoming Michelle Obama AM Joy Angela Rye's State of the Union A Thousand Words with Michelle Obama Unsung

2020s Year Series / Special Ref 2020 Unsung Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools Surviving R. Kelly The Breakfast Club The Story of God with Morgan Freeman 2021 The New York Times Presents "The Killing of Breonna Taylor" AM Joy: Remembering John Lewis Special Desus & Mero: The Obama Interview The Color of COVID The ReidOut

Multiple wins and nominations Wins

7 wins Unsung

4 wins The Oprah Winfrey Show

3 wins Tavis Smiley

2 wins In Conversation

Nominations

10 nominations Unsung

7 nominations Judge Mathis

5 nominations The Oprah Winfrey Show

3 nominations Anderson Cooper 360° Biography Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel Tavis Smiley Washington Watch with Roland Martin

2 nominations American Experience American Gangster Anderson Cooper 360° In Conversation Oprah: Where Are They Now? The Tyra Banks Show

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